Specify Scheduling Settings for Advanced Planning Board
Explanation
This activity is used to define the different default time frames used by the
Advanced Planning Board (APB) when scheduling operations for a site. You also
need to define how the APB should assign load to the different resources.
By specifying a transport calendar you can exclude non-working days when
calculating the transport time. The transportation calendar takes effect only
when shop order operations are scheduled and when the preceding operation or
operations have a defined transportation time.
Prerequisites
This activity requires that the Advanced Planning Board must be enabled for
the
site.
System Effects
As a result of this activity, the values you specify are used by the Advanced
Planning Board to schedule operations.
Window
Scheduling Basic Data
Related Window Descriptions
Scheduling Basic Data
Scheduling
Basic Data/Shop Order Scheduling/General
Procedure
- Open the
Scheduling Basic Data window and query for
the site you want to specify scheduling settings
for.
- Click the Shop Order Scheduling/General
tab.
- Make sure that the Enable Constraint Based
Scheduling check box and the Use Advanced Planning Board option
are selected
- In the Scheduling Horizon field, enter the number of days that
the APB should consider when scheduling. The default value is 365. You can set any value up
to five years but shorter time frames will provide better performance.
- In the Scheduling Start Point (Hours from Present Time) field,
enter a default start time for the first operation in the schedule. This
optional value is set to 8 by default.
- In the Priority Adjustment Factor Weight field, enter a value to
indicate the weight used for prioritization of shop orders. The default
value is 1.
- In the Transport Calendar field, enter the calendar that you want
to use or select one from the List of Values. This calendar will be used to
calculate the scheduled transport time. When scheduling a shop order
operation, the scheduled transport time will be used.
Note: To view
the transport calendar in the Advanced Planning Board, click Schedule Settings
on the Settings menu. The Schedule Settings
window opens. To view details of the transport calendar, double-click
the transport calendar object. For a graphical representation of the
transport calendar, drag the transport calendar object to object table
area.
To view the scheduled transport time of a single shop order operation,
select the shop order operation object, right-click and then click Show.
The
Operations window appears. Click the Show
Contents tab.
- In the Sequencing Horizon field, enter the
number of days to be used when sequencing orders. The default value is 10.
- In the Setup Optimization area, select one of the options to
determine what factors will be used by the APB to optimize setup.
- In the Adjust Schedule area, select the Allow Past Due Load in Adjust Schedule check box,
if you want to keep preceding operations of each of the reported/scrapped operations in the same operation structures in the past
when the Adjust Schedule logic is executed. When the check box is not selected, the preceding operations of each of the
reported/scrapped operations in the same operation structures will be scheduled from current time.
- Save the information.